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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description | The Saint-Jean-sur-Richilieu Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station is located in its former rail yard on Foch St. It is situated on the edge of the town’s heritage district just north of Parc Marchand, across the road from the historic court house. This is a handsome, finely featured picturesque station whose size has been sympathetically doubled since it was constructed in 1887. The CPR station in Saint-Jean-sur-Richilieu has been designated a heritage railway station for its historical, architectural and environmental importance. This station was constructed in 1887 on the CPR’s original “Short Line” between Montreal and the Altantic seaboard. It reflects CPR’s “eastern strategy” in a race to complete coast-to-coast rail service. Arrival of the CPR in Saint-Jean-sur-Richilieu enhanced the town’s already impressive transportation links to other parts of the country and stimulated its manufacturing base. Over the years the station has been expanded twice, once in 1906 and again in 1950, doubling its original size. The Saint-Jean-sur-Richilieu station was one of the CPR's earliest brick station buildings without living quarters. Aspects of its basic massing and design served as a model for numerous other stations built over the succeeding decades. The handsome proportions and simple but careful detailing of the original station are not only distinctive but respectfully supported in its later additions. Heritage value of the Saint-Jean-sur-Richilieu CPR station resides in its long low massing, in the materials and details of its construction, and in surviving features of its interior plan and decor. |
| Back Description | What the station looks like today |
| Height | 90.00 mm |
| Width | 143.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
